EBook For Circular and Transformative Economy 1st Edition

EBook For Circular and Transformative Economy 1st Edition By Luxon Nhamo, Sylvester Mpandeli, Stanley Lipha

Table of Content

1. Understanding circularity and transformative approaches and their role in achieving sustainability.
2. Voluntary Agreements and Systemic Lock-in in the Circular Economy: The Certification of Sewage Sludge in Sweden.
3. Global Status of Circular Economy Adaptation within Wastewater Services: Transition Pathways and the Role of Innovation.
4. Transitional pathways towards sustainable food systems.
5. Strengthening the transformational implementation of national climate change adaptation plans to enhance agricultural resilience.
6. Progress towards the circular economy: Case studies of sanitation and organic waste-derived resource recovery technologies in South Africa.
7. The circular economy as a catalyst for environmental and human health.
8. Gender Norms and Social Transformation of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.
9. Sustainable water management: does gender matter?
10. Enhancing socio-ecological interactions to achieve sustainable decentralised sanitation systems: why people are not using technical solutions.
11. A WEF nexus-based planning framework to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.
12. Understanding the Nexus Between Water, Energy and Food in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation: A River Basin Perspective.
13. Catalysing cleaner production systems: Benchmarking with the COVID-19 lockdowns in South Africa.
14. Enhancing the resilience and adaptation of the education sector through intention awareness.
15. Summary: Creating systems innovation platforms for transformative pathways in circular economy.

Description

The primary goal of this text is a practical one. Equipping students with enough knowledge and creating an independent research platform, the author strives to prepare students for professional careers. Providing students with a marketable skill set requires topics from many areas of optimization. The initial goal of this text is to develop a marketable skill set for mathematics majors as well as for students of engineering, computer science, economics, statistics, and business. Optimization reaches into many different fields.

This text provides a balance where one is needed. Mathematics optimization books are often too heavy on theory without enough applications; texts aimed at business students are often strong on applications, but weak on math. The book represents an attempt at overcoming this imbalance for all students taking such a course.

The book contains many practical applications but also explains the mathematics behind the techniques, including stating definitions and proving theorems. Optimization techniques are at the heart of the first spam filters, are used in self-driving cars, play a great role in machine learning, and can be used in such places as determining a batting order in a Major League Baseball game. Additionally, optimization has seemingly limitless other applications in business and industry. In short, knowledge of this subject offers an individual both a very marketable skill set for a wealth of jobs as well as useful tools for research in many academic disciplines.